Posted on 11/30/2010 8:05:49 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
Before the Iron Bowl on Friday, Cam Newton and his Auburn teammates warmed up on the field to a couple of specially selected songs. Newton had already been showered in fake money by the Alabama student section as he made his way to the field, and once he was out there the songs "Son of a Preacher Man" and "Take the Money and Run."
Obviously, the selections were in reference to the rumors that Newton's father Cecil Newton, a preacher, was shopping his son to the highest bidder after he left Florida. Honestly, when I heard about all of this before the game started, I found it to be rather amusing. Maybe it wasn't the classiest way to go about things, but it wasn't exactly harmful.
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I think that is pretty funny myself.
Friend of mine went to a Penn State vs West Virginia game years ago up in PA. Someone from the stadium crew made an announcement to the crowd about a pick up truck in the parking lot having left its lights on and the plates were from West VA. The tags read
E I E I O
That was a Pitt game (at old Pitt stadium) but the announcement was was described.
That was a Pitt game (at old Pitt stadium) but the announcement was as described.
Back in the day at Grant Field (Georgia Tech) when the Irish came to town frozen fish and whisky bottles would rain down out of the stands before the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYHubHHxWAY&feature=related
Wo wo wo woah, wo wo wo woa woa woah.
That is annoying. Another is the “Everybody clap your hands.”
Come to think of it you are correct. He was working all over PA going to games at Pitt and PSU....
Hee, hee! Brutal, but funny!
I'm pretty annoyed by the whole thing...they are convicting him in the press before any charges have been filed.
At the same time I can't help but laugh at the jokes. Auburn and Cam Newton are playing in the big leagues...if they can't handle the pressure they have no business being there.
Just like it was funny in the tasteless but funny, college-kind-of way that Alabama fans hoisted some of the clever signs about laptops, or payments, or when the fans showered Cam Newton with photocopies of monopoly money, $180,000-dollar bills, or photocopies of US $1 bills with Cam's face in place of George Washington's.
A line was crossed when the University public address system was used, because at that point, it became an action of the University of Alabama, and not of its students, alumni, and fans.
It's a thin line, but I think it's an important line.
And it wasn't so funny when a large portion of Alabama fans booed the Auburn players when they kneeled in prayer before the game.
The least funny thing was when the Texas Longhorns lost earlier in the week.
The woo hoo is teh ghey. Some morons actually like it. They shouldn’t be allowed near a football stadium.
Who got the last laugh?
WAR EAGLE!
They didn’t think it was so funny when Auburn laid that ass whipping on them in the second half.
Every Alabama fan I have talked to since the game is convinced that Bama (McElroy, Ingram, Richardson) was paid off at halftime to throw the game to Auburn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_Bartak
I heard one was also ejected for playing “Dum de dumm dum” but can't find a link.
“Every Alabama fan I have talked to since the game is convinced that Bama (McElroy, Ingram, Richardson) was paid off at halftime to throw the game”
I know exactly what happened WH. In normal life I’m not superstitious - but when it comes to sports that changes.
Mid first half (with the Score 21-0 and McElroy doing great) they showed his family in the stands high-fiving and cell/texting their friends. I immediately knew that was bad mojo. Sure enough, after mutliple dropped passes, a fumble, and a concussion from a sack, McElroy was helped off the field wobbling noticeably. They should have behaved somewhat similarly to the way I did when the boy was pitching in Little League. If he’s throwing strikes and doing good stand by the tree by the dugout and show no emotion. If he starts throwing balls - switch trees.
The Auburn coaching staff made changes to the offensive and defensive plan at halftime. That, and the players buckled down.
Nick Saban is not known for being a halftime coach, and Alabama fans grumble that once he gets the lead, he changes the game plan from whatever was successful to something more conservative to try and hold the lead. He made few if any changes at halftime, as far as I (or anybody - 'Bama, Auburn, or other fans - could tell). And as one of the 'Bama players said, they were complacent coming out of the locker room for the second half, with a 24-7 lead.
Well duh! What else do you think Cam Newton did with that 180 grand??
:-) RTR
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